Heidi Allen and her coauthor examine the known impacts of the Affordable Care Act on the health of those in…
Category: Faculty News
Announcing the Steven P. Schinke Teaching Innovation Award
The Office of the Associate Dean for Curriculum Innovation and Academic Affairs has announced a new opportunity for CSSW faculty…
Medicaid Can Fight Poverty by Reducing Evictions
Professor Heidi Allen and her colleagues estimate that for every 1000 low-income enrollees in California’s Medicaid expansion there were 22…
2018–2019 Year in Review
As the first school of its kind in the nation, Columbia University's School of Social Work has been at the…
2018–2019 Faculty Grants
The Columbia School of Social Work leads the social work field in the breadth and depth of its sponsored research…
2018–2019 Faculty Publications
During the 2018–2019 academic year, the Columbia School of Social Work’s tenured and tenure-track faculty published more than 150 articles…
2018–2019 Faculty Milestones & In the News
In addition to raising grants and producing publications, members of our faculty also marked important milestones, and made frequent media…
Welfare and Well-Being: Life Satisfaction Among Welfare Recipients in Rural China
In a new study, Professor Qin Gao and her colleague found that for rural participants in China’s social safety net…
Study Showing Medicaid’s Anti-Poverty Effect Cited in “Forbes”
Research scientists Naomi Zewde and Christopher Wimer found that Medicaid expansions under Obamacare lifted nearly 700,000 out of poverty. Medicaid…
Welfare Participation and Youth Depression: Correlation or Causation?
Professor Qin Gao has contributed to a paper showing that, while some studies are linking welfare participation and levels of…